Annual Report for the year 1905 



The Committee have again to report that the affairs of the 

 Society are financially in a satisfactory condition. 



During the year three numbers of the Journal have been 

 published Nos. 42, 43, 44 and two others are at present being- 

 printed. The supply of interesting material for the Journal has 

 increased considerably during the last year as has the number 

 of contributors. Some important Malay manuscripts have been 

 obtained by Mr. Maxwell, and Mr. Laidlaw has been assi- 

 duously collecting Folk-lore tales of Malaya. Mr. Shelford's 

 illustrated catalogue of Dyak personal ornaments formed volume 

 43 of the Journal. We have additional Folk tales of Borneo 

 from Mr. Gomes, and papers on Malay lace making and basket 

 making by Mrs. Bland, on the Perak Sakais by Mr. Cerruti, and 

 other Ethnographical papers are being printed, Natural History 

 papers have been furnished by Mr. Shelford, Cameron, Kloss, 

 Hewitt, Robinson and Ridley. Illustrations from photographs 

 supplied by the authors have been prepared by the firm of Carl 

 Henschel and are a great improvement to the Journal. One of 

 the old numbers (No. 25) being quite out of print was reprinted. 



During the year His Excellency Sir John Anderson kindly 

 consented to become Patron of the Society and the following 

 new members were elected. 



Mrs. Bland 

 W. S. 0. Richards 

 R. D. Acton 

 G. E. V. Thomas 

 J. B. Carruthees 

 R. S- Douglas 



He. P. Gueritz 



J. Hewitt 



B. Nunn 



Dr. John Donald 



Mr. J. W. Campbell 



R. E. Hose. 



It was not possible to make any headway with the new 

 edition of the map this year but the whole of the old edition is 

 now sold out and it is hoped that in the ensuing year substantial 

 progress may be made towards bringing out a new edition. 



